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Finalists Named in
Best Books of Indiana Competition
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Lyrasis' New Member Magazine Available Online
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Anderson Herald
Bulletin
Library board gives Lapel Branch high priority
Brazil Times
Former library director provides answer to recent question
Evansville Courier & Press
Library voting may end in '10
Kokomo Perspective
School board approves lease of Columbian School to library
Kokomo Tribune
Library in midst of moving operations
Muncie Star Press
BSU's Bracken Library houses hidden treasures
South Bend Tribune
Library drive gets boost
Terre Haute Tribune Star
Big Read targets ‘My Antonia’ for 2010
Vincennes Sun Commercial
Library board approves budget increase for 2010
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Finalists Named for Best Books of Indiana Competition
Seventeen
titles have been selected as finalists in the 2009 Best
Books of Indiana Competition. The Indiana Center for the Book
started the book contest in 2005 to renew interest in Indiana's
strong literary heritage. The 2009 competition featured 61
titles by Hoosier authors or about Indiana and published between
January 1 and December 31, 2008. This year's finalists are as
follows:
Children's/Young Adult Finalists
- Diamond Willow
by Helen Frost
(Fort Wayne). Farrar, Straus & Giroux. New York, NY
- Double-Click
for Trouble by Chris
Woodworth (Fort Wayne) Farrar, Straus &
Giroux. New York, NY
- Gobble Gobble Crash! A Barnyard Counting Bash
by Julie Stiegemeyer
(Fort Wayne). Dutton Children’s Books. New York, NY
Fiction Finalists
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Anathema
by Colleen Coble
(Wabash). Thomas
Nelson. Nashville, TN
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Blood on the Rimrock
by Phil Dunlap
(Carmel). Avalon Books. New York, NY
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The Incident
by Stephen Lucid
(Beech Grove). New Century Publishing. Indianapolis, IN
Nonfiction Historical/Biographical Finalists
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The Eccentric Billionaire: John D. MacArthur
by Nancy Kriplen
(Indianapolis). Amacom Books. New York, NY
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Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins
by Michael Martone
(Tuscaloosa, AL – Originally from Fort Wayne). The
University of Georgia Press. Athens, GA
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The Ripest Moments: A Southern Indiana Childhood
by Norbert Krapf
(Indianapolis).
Indiana Historical Society Press. Indianapolis, IN
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Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana Primary
by Ray Boomhower
(Indianapolis). Indiana University Press. Bloomington, IN
Nonfiction Creative/Instructional Finalists
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Brookville by Craig
T. Chappelow & Donald Dunaway
(Brookville). Arcadia Publishing. Mt. Pleasant, SC
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Every Way Possible: 125 Years of the Indianapolis Museum of
Art by Anne P.
Robinson & S.L. Perry.
Indianapolis Museum of Art. Indianapolis, IN
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Home Grown Indiana
by Christine Barbour
(Bloomington) & Scott
Hutcheson (Lebanon).
Indiana University
Press. Bloomington, IN
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Perennials Short and Tall
by Moya Andrews
(Bloomington).
Indiana Univ. Press.
Bloomington
Poetry Finalists
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Blood Root
by Norbert Krapf
(Indianapolis). Indiana University Press. Bloomington, IN
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The Floating Bridge
by David Shumate
(Zionsville). University of Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh
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A Matinee in Plato’s Cave
by Rob Griffith
(Evansville). Water Press & Media. Argyle, TX
Each category's winning title and author will be engraved on a plaque in the
Indiana Authors Room where one copy of their book will remain indefinitely.
Three copies of all 2009 competition entries have been added to the State
Library's collection. Two copies of each entry will circulate. Indiana citizens
can borrow any Best Books of Indiana title at the State Library or request it
via interlibrary loan at their local public library.
Winners of the 2009 Best Books of Indiana Competition will be
announced at an awards ceremony on August 29, 2009. A complete listing of this year's entrants and finalists, as
well as
past years’ winners and finalists can be found on the
Indiana Center for the Book’s Website.
Lyrasis
recently issued its first membership magazine,
Lyrasis
Solutions, which can be viewed online. Lyrasis
became the nation’s leading regional library network following
the merger of SOLINET and PALINET, and the upcoming addition
NELINET libraries. The new publication will provide
in-depth interviews, feature stories on member innovations and
achievements, Lyrasis initiatives, and other news items relevant
to Indiana libraries.
The summer 2009 issue features articles about the inaugural Evergreen
International Conference, unique Lyrasis initiatives that will impact member
libraries, a recap of the 2009 REFolution Conference, the progress of rebuilding
efforts for Gulf Coast Libraries, and much more. Additionally, Ball State
University Library took the publication’s first “Member Spotlight” with an
informative article written by former Ball State Marketing Communications
Manager and current ILF Executive Director Susan Akers. Digitally Preserving
Yesterday's Stories for Tomorrow's Learners, details how the university’s
plans to ensure its digital oral histories collection will be heard and
appreciated by generations of Hoosiers.
View the magazine and other Lyrasis resources and services at
www.lyrasis.org. |